<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433</id><updated>2011-04-21T18:57:10.901Z</updated><title type='text'>Laurent et Manuela en vadrouille- South America 2005</title><subtitle type='html'>Laurent:laurentfrompicardie@linuxmail.org----------------------------------------------------------------Manuela: givemeloadsofsmiles@gmail.com-------------------------------------------------------------------</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-113440018882011439</id><published>2005-12-12T15:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-12T15:19:18.660Z</updated><title type='text'>Dernieres heures en Ecuador</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;Bah voila, c´est bientot fini. On va prendre notre avion dans quelques heures. On a plus de sous, il fait pas beau a Quito et puis on est encore malade comme des chiens.....Du coup on est content de rentrer au bercail meme si on aura pas plus de sous, pas de boulot et pas de chez soi. C´est pas bien grave: on est jeune, quelques hypothetiques diplomes interessant, notre famille et amis et un avenir qui forcement d´une maniere ou d´une autre repassera par l´amerique du sud.&lt;br /&gt;Quand tu veux, poulette, on y retourne.....!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/28610007mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/28610007mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Souvenirs de Trinidad &amp; Tobago&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/28610023mini.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/28610023mini.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Souvenirs du Venezuela&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1827mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1827mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Souvenirs d´Ecuador&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-113440018882011439?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/113440018882011439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=113440018882011439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113440018882011439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113440018882011439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/12/dernieres-heures-en-ecuador.html' title='Dernieres heures en Ecuador'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-113431427284340291</id><published>2005-12-11T15:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-12T15:02:04.613Z</updated><title type='text'>Mushullakta</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Mushullakta-December 2005-National Parc of Napo-Galleras&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelques 5 jours passes dans une communité Kichwa dans la selva amazonienne. Il nous a fallut 2 jours complets de bus (dont un a perdu la colonne de direction sur un pont...) et puis 2 heures de crapahutade pour atteindre le village. C´est une foret tropicale humide donc on a prit la flotte sur la gueule pendant 5 jours. Pas moyen de secher mais on était heureux d´avoir notre ration quotidienne de banane, riz et yucca a chaque repas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;5 days spent in a Kichwa community in a humid tropical forest. That needs 2 full days in a bus and 2 hours of trekking to reach the village. Actually, no one goes there...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1840mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1840mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Monkey´s ass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1858mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1858mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ce fut notre maison pour un peu. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Home sweet home&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1886mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1886mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Lavage de chaussette qui puent.&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Washing session in our personnal bathroom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1907mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1907mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Manuela and Leonidas.&lt;/span&gt; Elle fait pas la maligne, vu que le gars se trimballe avec sa machette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1922mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1922mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La foret et ses arbres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1925mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1925mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ca, ca doit se fumer si j´ai bien compris. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Plant used for shamanism (smokeable!!!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-113431427284340291?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/113431427284340291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=113431427284340291' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113431427284340291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113431427284340291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/12/mushullakta.html' title='Mushullakta'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-113319723062303846</id><published>2005-11-28T16:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-12-02T17:58:06.520Z</updated><title type='text'>Vilcabamba</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1797laumini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1797laumini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On est parti quelques jours dans le sud de l´Ecuador a Vilcabamba. C´est la ville de la jeunesse eternelle oú les gens sont immunises contre certaines maladies. Ils vivent centenaires, aussi. Enfin bref, un truc á touristes parceque moi, la premiere chose que j´ai fait apres m´etre debarasse de mes problemes de tripes, c´est d´attraper un rhube...........Bon, en tout cas, c´est bien paisible, la montagne est magnifique et puis on peut glandouiller pas mal dans le hamac.....En attendant, l´amazonie et les crocros................ &lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Few days in Vilcabamba in the south of Ecuador. That´s beautiful and very peaceful. Lots of hiking to do around in the mountains. They have plenty of hamocs, so we are making good use of these for the time being. Next friday, we´ll head off for the amazonia. Let´s catch and eat some crocodiles.......... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1816laumini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1816laumini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a ref="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1819laumini.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1819laumini.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-113319723062303846?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/113319723062303846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=113319723062303846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113319723062303846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113319723062303846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/11/vilcabamba.html' title='Vilcabamba'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-113285977342001587</id><published>2005-11-24T19:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-24T19:52:59.600Z</updated><title type='text'>En attendant que Laurent aille mieux...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Coucou les amis, en attendant que Laurent aille mieux, nous sommes a Quito...cet apres-midi, il va aller faire des examens du bidou pour voir quelle petite bebete se balade dans son estomac...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Entre temps, l'appareil photo numerique de la maman de Laurent nous a lache, mais pas de panique, peut etre il y a une chance...on l'a apporte chez un reparateur pour faire un devis, croisons les doigts...&lt;br /&gt;En esperant avoir plus de belles photos a vous montrer...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/montage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/montage.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Basically, we are in Quito until Laurent gets better, this afternoon exams will tell us if he's got parasites in the stomac...we thought it was food poisoning but after 4 days being sick and our medicines having no effect, we doubt it...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;The digital camera doesn't work anymore, we brought it to a shop are are waiting for the results... cross fingers it is not dead!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-113285977342001587?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/113285977342001587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=113285977342001587' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113285977342001587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113285977342001587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/11/en-attendant-que-laurent-aille-mieux.html' title='En attendant que Laurent aille mieux...'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-113208433711431317</id><published>2005-11-15T19:48:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-16T21:52:27.803Z</updated><title type='text'>....&amp; Tobago</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Quelques jours passés a Tobago avec Ben &amp; Mapi..... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Few days with our friends Ben &amp;amp; Mapi in Tobago...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/PB120109mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB120109mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/PB120118mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB120118mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Inutile de vous rappeler que nous sommes dans les Caraïbes... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;No need to mention that we are in the Caribbeans...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/PB120119mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB120119mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB120142mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt; Je pense que la plupart des photos se passent de commentaires...tellemet c boooooooooo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/PB120066mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB120066mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Le steel pan, grossierement, ils tapent sur des bidons accordes, le son est assez metallique mais sympa... Pour plus de renseignements sur cet instrument, je vous invite a contacter notre ingenieur accoustique specialiste en la matiere : Ben Heumez a &lt;a href="mailto:benouit@yahoo.com"&gt;benouit@yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Steel Pan is an instrument born in Trinidad, to resume, they play on kind of baril, the sound is quite metallic but nice...if you want to know more about it, you can contact our accoustic engineer, he is a specialist: Ben Heumez at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:benouit@yahoo.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;benouit@yahoo.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/PB120097mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB120097mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/PB120110mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB120110mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/PB120101mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB120101mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Little Tobago&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/PB140167mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/PB140167mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mapi nous a convie a la langouste locale de Tobago, c'etait un vrai delice pour les papilles! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Mapi offered us generously a dinner in a restaurant where the lobster is queen of the meal, delicious!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-113208433711431317?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/113208433711431317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=113208433711431317' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113208433711431317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113208433711431317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/11/tobago.html' title='....&amp; Tobago'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-113095893170277680</id><published>2005-11-02T19:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-16T23:08:25.286Z</updated><title type='text'>Trinidad</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/019_19baymini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/019_19baymini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Quand Christophe Colomb a débarque ici, la première fois, des indigènes sont venus a sa rencontre. Il a voulu leur souhaité la bienvenue par des danses accueillantes: les indigènes n’ont pas bien compris la signification du tout, du coup ils ont commencé a leur tirer des flèches. Tout ça s’est finalement terminé en bataille rangée….Nous quand on s’est pointé à l’immigration, on n’avait pas de billet retour, alors on a attendu 2h à la douane pour que l’on nous fasse une réservation de retour ……Le truc c’est que l’on ne connaissait pas encore l’histoire de Colomb. On avait aussi oublié le passé colonial et esclavagiste de l’île.&lt;br /&gt;On est chez Ben et Mapi, que l’on a connu en Angleterre et qui travaillent a l’université des West Indies. Ils nous montrent tous les recoins de l’île. Apparemment, on a du venir avec la pluie de Hull, car il pleut tous les jours de grosses averses tropicales (l’eau de pluie est a 28ºC) …On s’est tout de même bien adapté au rythme des caraïbes: levé tard, prise de décision au ralenti,incertitudes inhérentes a chaque initiative liées au mode de fonctionnement du pays et surtout protection maximale contre les rayons directs du soleil. On a quand même vu des plages paradisiaques, des marchés typiques grouillant d’activité, des temples hindous (40% de la population est d’origine de l’Inde), ainsi que des serpents et autres bestioles et oiseaux tropicaux. Pour finir de brosser ce tableau d’une île vraiment éclectique, il faut évoquer le steel-pan (instrument de musique fait a partir de barils de pétrole), l’industrie du pétrole, les embouteillages liés au trop grand nombre de voitures et de maxi taxis, les rastafaris et autres religions (de l’Islam aux sectes chrétiennes en passant par les Hindous déjà mentionnés plus haut), l’insécurité et les kidnappings, le carnaval que l’on ne verra pas et le dévelopement du capitalisme qui fait son bonhomme de chemin. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;The first time Christophe Colomb arrived here Indigeneous came to meet him. He celebrated his arrival with welcoming dances. They didn't understood and threw darts at him and finally started a battle. Us when we arrived, we didn't have return tickets cause a guy from the airline told us we didn't have to buy them, so they talked to us like shit and made us (and Ben) wait 2 hours...Just arrived and we could already feel the colonialist and slavery past that their ancestors had been victims (we were pray of racism). We are at Ben and Mapi's, we met them in Hull (UK), they work at the University of west Indies. They showed us the island Trinidad. We came and left with the rain, remembering us of Hull...Tropical rain is alright as the temperature is between 28 and 35ºC. Quite quickly we took the caribbean rythm: waking up late, taking decision slowly, undecision due to the way the country is badly organised and maximum protection against moquitos and sun. We saw beautiful beaches, busy market, indu temples (40% of the population is hindu), as well as snakes and tropical birds. Finally we can't talk about Trinidad without mentionning the steel pan, a musical instrument made of baril. The petrol industry is also quite important and the traffic jams due to too many cars and maxi taxis are part of the trini life. Rastafaris with mountain of dreadlocks are everywhere. Insecurity and kidnappings are feared and part of everyday life. One of our regret is that we won't see the carnival which is in may.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/073_73TTmini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/073_73TTmini.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="right"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/020_20beachmini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/020_20beachmini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/079_79cocomini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/079_79cocomini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/068_68bamboomini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/068_68bamboomini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/059_59maisonmini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/059_59maisonmini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Mapi et moi a la cathedrale de bamboo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/009_9templemini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/009_9templemini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/067_67divalimini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/067_67divalimini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Diwali &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/084_84benmini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/084_84benmini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Et surtout les oranges et noix de coco du jardin de Ben et Mapi...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/086_86manucocomini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/086_86manucocomini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/047_47laujunglemini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/047_47laujunglemini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-113095893170277680?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/113095893170277680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=113095893170277680' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113095893170277680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113095893170277680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/11/trinidad.html' title='Trinidad'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-113034471351391000</id><published>2005-10-26T16:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-11-07T21:49:17.580Z</updated><title type='text'>Venezuela</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/037_37canonsmini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/037_37canonsmini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Coucou tout le monde,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Finalement, on a pris un avion pour aller voir les tropiques. Les vrais tropiques avec une chaleur etouffante...Donc, petite journee commencee a 5h du mat, pour attendre 3h en avance a l'aeroport de Quito. Tout ca pour payer les taxes d' aeroports. 3 decolages et atterissages plus tard, on fut arrive a Isla Margherita. Il etait quand meme 9h du soir. On a experimente le bordel ambiant a Caracas, les vieux coucoux mais a jet propulseur pour aller a margherita, et finalement les cocotiers a notre destination finale. On fut approprietement conduit par des parents d'une amie de nos amis dans un hotel, anciennement militaire, mais bizarement encore occupe par trop d' uniforme a notre gout. Y' avait la climatisation, une piscine geante, 2 anciens forts espagnols a quelques centaines de pas et la plage et les cocotiers et la mer des caraibes idealement places sous notre fenetre. Finalement, on a decide que l' on pouvait certainement tres bien vivre en harmonie avec ce genre de communaute........... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;After a month spent in Ecuador, it was time to go and see other places. The trip from Ecuador to Venezuela was not easy at all: in one day, we had to use at least two aircraft (at least one was a jet, and I have to say relatively recent), take off and land at least 3 times (My face went respectively white, green and blue), pay 5 different kinds of airport, national or leaving taxes, and were forced to eat the on-board food (That didn’t help about the colour of my face)) Caracas airport was messy enough to forget it and was quickly skipped. We finally arrived in Isla Margherita where we had arranged a meeting at the airport with the mum of a friend of a friend... Isla margherita is located in the north of Venezuela, which is to say on the border of the Caribbean Sea. We were led to a former military hostel which was, strangely enough, still full of uniforms and guns……..Fortunately, an air conditioned system, a swimming pool, two ancient Spanish forts at walking distance and the sea and the beach with coco trees just below our window were determinant to convince us to accommodate with this charming community. We did enjoy very much all of that but; yet, found a urge to go on for something else quite quickly…. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/044_44avionmini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/044_44avionmini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/040_40manuplagemini.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/040_40manuplagemini.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/043_43plagemini.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/043_43plagemini.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-113034471351391000?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/113034471351391000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=113034471351391000' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113034471351391000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/113034471351391000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/venezuela.html' title='Venezuela'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-112983929161832301</id><published>2005-10-20T20:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-10-20T20:57:48.690Z</updated><title type='text'>El Tambo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1567mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1567mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1543mini1.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1543mini1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our volunteer story with Ecotrackers network&lt;br /&gt;Av. Amazonas y Roca, Quito, Ecuador&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ecotrackers.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.ecotrackers.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;at El Tambo, Ingapirca &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Manuela and I decided to go to the community of El Tambo-Ingarpica. Our first stay was in Estero de Platano on the Pacific coast, and we decided to opt for some more serious things: The Andes and the altitude sickness, and a total immersion into the Cañari culture. It was without any difficulty that we reached this place, as it is conveniently located on the Panamericana road. We were welcomed by Jose and Isaura and their son Freddy in their nice brightly red-coloured house. They were very happy to tell us a big chunk of the History of their culture: an amazing mix of civilizations, wars, beliefs and sciences. I spent the next night dreaming about some Cañari princess, Inca´s road to the sun and some Conquistadors´ quest to some treasure. I have to say that I did probably mix everything up; such was the profusion of innumerable details that they gave us.&lt;br /&gt;The place is really full of History as it was possible to enjoy, during our short stay, the ruins of Ingapirca, the Inca´s trail and Los Baños del Inca, which are located in a short distance from El Tambo. Also, our attention was drawn on the fact that the ruins of “Los baños del Inca” are actually abandoned and not developed at all. This site is waiting for an entrance office and a small museum. It has great potential for tourism and could be an ideal complementary alternative to Ingarpica and the Inca´s trail.&lt;br /&gt;As volunteers, our small retribution was to go and help in the nursery school of the community: La guarderia de Cucho Corral, which is always in need of fresh blood, as they are only 3 persons in charge of usually 25 to 30 niños. In there, a dozen of kids, between 1 and 5 years old, were impatiently waiting for some lost souls to play with them: Piezas, little coches and pellotas were our duty.&lt;br /&gt;It was a very nice opportunity to spend time within the community, discovering the great heritage inherited after centuries of History, learning a bit of Spanish and also Quichua, and having a better understanding of the importance and signification of these cultures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1558mini2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1558mini2.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1579mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1579mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1577mini1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1615mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1615mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-112983929161832301?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/112983929161832301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=112983929161832301' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112983929161832301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112983929161832301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/el-tambo.html' title='El Tambo'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-112975834465453198</id><published>2005-10-19T21:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-10-20T17:39:58.856Z</updated><title type='text'>Les ruines d'Ingapirca</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1527mini2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/400/IMGP1527mini1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ce sont les ruines incas et cañaris d'Ingapirca (datant du 15eme siecle)...Les cañaris etaient le premier peuple present puis ils ont vite ete rejoins par les incas (qui viennent du Perou) et leur soif d'expansion et de connaissance...les cañaris etant un peuple fort, ils ne se sont pas laisses faire...finalement les 2 peuples se sont installes et maries ensemble, ils ont ainsi cohabites jusqu'au debarquement des espagnols qui ont simplement convertis de force tout le monde...aujourd'hui les habitants de cette region se disent issus du metissage des cañaris et des incas, mais ils sont plus profondement cañaris...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The photo shows the Ingapirca ruins, remains of 2 civilisations, the cañaris and the incas. The cañaris are from Ecuador and were the first . In the 15th century, the incas came from Peru to colonise the cañaris, but this people were strong and the incas never got rid of them...Finally they lived and got married together in peace, until the spanish invasion. The people that we met there said they feel as being cañaris but in reality they are issued of the 2 civilisations blend.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Infos: Les cañaris adoraient la lune et sacrifiaient des humains (il a ete retrouve sur ce site des reste d'os humains qui furent selon les etudes enterres vivants en position foetale). Les incas, eux veneraient le soleil et ne sacrifiaient apparemment que des animaux. C'etaient de grands scientifiques pour l'epoque, ils etaient tres avances au niveau astronomique et fonctionnaient deja avec le calendrier lunaire que nous connaissons actuellement&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Infos: soon to come...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sur la photo ci-dessous :Laurent et Isaura, notre hotesse pour 5 jours a El Tambo, sur une partie du chemin de l'inca, nous l'avons suivi pendant 3 heures jusqu'a la lagune Culuvrillas et autres vestiges, empreinte du passage des incas... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;On the photo below, Laurent and Isaura, who opened her house to us for 5 days. They are walking on the Inca's trail, we followed it for 3 hours until the laguna Culuvrillas and other ruins, prints that the incas passed by... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1604mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/400/IMGP1604mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt; A noter que la nuit precedent notre marche, j'ai ete malade comme une chienne, a vomir mes boyaux (selon nos recherches, cela provenait d'un ognon pourri que Laurent a cuisine)...Ben oui c'est aussi ca les vacances en Equateur!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The night before this walk, i was badly sick, vomiting all what i've got inside (after some research we found out that it came from an ognon that Laurent cooked)...I guess it's also part of the holidays!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-112975834465453198?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/112975834465453198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=112975834465453198' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112975834465453198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112975834465453198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/les-ruines-dingapirca.html' title='Les ruines d&apos;Ingapirca'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-112950395564264163</id><published>2005-10-16T22:10:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-10-19T23:39:30.303Z</updated><title type='text'>Perdus en montagne!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1508mini3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1508mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1510mini1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1510mini1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nous voila arrives a Achupallas, petit pueblo perdu dans les montagnes...nous avons une idee en tete, y trouver un guide pas cher, Manuel, dans le but de faire pendant 2 jours a cheval, le chemin de l´inca. Ce que le guide du routard ne nous disait pas et qu'on a vite appris par les habitants, c'est que Manuel habite dans la montagne a 3 heures d'Achupallas. Il est environ 2h de l'apres-midi et nous voila partis (sac sur le dos) a crapahuter a la recherche de Manuel...Paysage magnifique, on ne s'en lasse pas...voila qu'au bout d'1h-1h30 de marche, nous nous retrouvons encercles par un brouillard qui se fait de plus en plus epais et plus un pellerin a la ronde a qui demander notre route...on commence a flipper un peu, que faire? on y voit plus a 5 metres devant, on entend bien des chiens et un ane mais sont-ils loin? Heureusement, on ne va pas tarder a reperer une cabane en foin, refuge eventuel pour la nuit...Je (Manuela) n'en peux plus, j'ai les epaules dechirees par le sac a dos qui se fait de plus en plus pesant...la nuit ne va pas tarder a tomber, l'air est de plus en plus humide...c'est decide, nous nous arretons ici pour la nuit...Finalement, non loin de la, nous allons trouver une autre cabane (avec murs en terre et toit en paille) qui semble plus safe pour y passer la nuit...Avant que la nuit ne tombe, nous essayons de recolter le maximum de bois, le moins humide possible, chose qui n'est pas si facile sachant qu'il n'y a pas une buche qui traine a la ronde (finalement, nous ne l'utiliserons meme pas!). Suite a un repas allege (une banane pour 2), nous nous endormons (epuises de fatigue), les bras l'un dans l'autre, moi armee de mon super duvet special montagne (merci mes potes de Reva Industries Ltd) et Laurent de son duvet en plume (qui ne ferme plus qu'avec des epingles a nourrice) et une couverture de survie (sorte de papier alluminium bien pratique).&lt;br /&gt;Il fut dur de nous endormir, mais une fois fait, nous avons roupilles jusqu'au petit matin...Nous decidons de lacher l'affaire avec Manuel et de regagner le village pour y manger, la demi banane ayant ete digeree bien vite! De plus, nous voulons rejoindre El Tambo et les ruines d'Ingapirca ou nous attend une famille cañarie avec qui nous allons passer 5 jours (toujours dans le cadre ecotouristique avec ecotrackers). Arrives a Achupallas, apres une marche matinale ventre vide de 2h, nous enfilons quelques petits pains et barres de chocolat, discutons avec les locaux pour nous apercevoir qu'il nous faut repartir a pieds pour prendre le bus a la Moya (en bas des montagnes)...sur la route, pas d'ombre, pas de camionnette, rien sinon des montagnes qui nous entourent, des cailloux qui nous chauffent les pieds et des paysans qui menent leur troupeau a brouter...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1519mini1.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/200/IMGP1519mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt; En conclusion, plus de peur que de mal, de la chance et voila une aventure que nous ne sommes pas prets d'oublier!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que du bonheur!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moi j'ai des mollets en beton maintenant, apres 3 jours&lt;/span&gt; de courbatures, vaut mieux&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#330033;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;Lost in the mountain...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;We got lost in the mountain and spent the night in a shed somewhere...we went to Achupallas, a very little village in the Sierra, our aim was to look for a guide to do the inca´s trail during 2 days with horses, our french guide book was talking about Manuel...what it didn't tell us is that this guide lives 3 hours far from Achupallas. We arrived at around 2 in the afternoon and went to look for him walking in the mountain...after 1h30 of walk, we couldn't see further than 5 meters and nobody around, not even a donkey! My bagpack was weighing a lot, like if someone put stones in it...we couldn't see the path (that we were trying to follow), just hearing some dogs far away...But how far? The question was what to do?The night was coming...we found a little shed in a field, the walls were made of soil and the roof of dried herbs, it was our heaven for the night, we managed to find little peace of wood, just in case it was freezing and we needed to do a fire (finally there was no need for it). I was very glad my friends from Reva offered me a mountain sleeping bag as my leaving present. Being really tired of walking and having just a banana for two to eat, we managed to fall asleep until the next morning...The next morning we walked to the village to get something to eat, we walked 2 hours starving but the day was clear and the sightseeing amazing! We gave up with the guide and decided to head for our next volunteering destination in El Tambo (near Ingapirca). After the breakfast, we had to walk (again) for few more hours to join the Panamericana to get a bus. The sun was striking and there was no shade, no cars...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;I can tell you that after these 2 days of adventure, my calves were aching for at least 3 days...BUT HOW GOOD IT WAS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-112950395564264163?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/112950395564264163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=112950395564264163' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112950395564264163'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112950395564264163'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/perdus-en-montagne.html' title='Perdus en montagne!'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-112948684163314871</id><published>2005-10-16T18:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-10-16T23:13:18.893Z</updated><title type='text'>Le train de la mort</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1500mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1500mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Riobamba-Alausi (10-12 oct 05)&lt;br /&gt;On s´est tapé 60 bornes sur le toit d´un train (ils disent que ce fut le plus dangereux du monde a construire a l´epoque). Tout ca en un peu moins de 6 heures (ca fait une moyenne plus facile a calculer!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;6 hours spent on the roof of the most dangerous train in the world (only to build the trackline) in order to go from Riobamba to Alausi (around 60kms!!!!!). Full of tourists...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1482mini1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/400/IMGP1482mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Arrivée a Riobamba, le samedi, jour de marché. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Saturday morning in Riobamba, full of people as it is the day of the local market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1488mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/400/IMGP1488mini.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Samedi 18h (heure locale). Ca y est, l´equipe nationale de foot est au mondial allemand de 2006. Manuela nous fete ca dignement. &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;The national footbal team will go to the mundial 2006 in Germany. Manuela and all the country are happy......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-112948684163314871?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/112948684163314871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=112948684163314871' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112948684163314871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112948684163314871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/le-train-de-la-mort.html' title='Le train de la mort'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-112948070891941760</id><published>2005-10-16T16:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-10-16T23:15:04.710Z</updated><title type='text'>Baños</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/DPSCamera_0077mini1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 277px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 325px" height="384" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/400/DPSCamera_0077mini.jpg" width="278" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quelques jours a Baños (7-9oct 05)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Few days in Baños, located in the center of the country. There is a volcano just around the corner, which is still in activity. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ville situee dans le centre du pays juste a cote du volcan Tungurahua encore en activite.&lt;br /&gt;Les habitants ont du evacuer la ville en 1999, mais c´ etait une fausse alerte. On esperait bien se prendre une eruption dans notre face, mais ca sera pour une autre fois (en tout cas Manuela en a fait des cauchemards de cette eventuelle iruption, on mettra ca sur le compte de l'altitude!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;People had to evacuate the city in 1999 because of its bad temper.....We were expecting an imminent irruption while we were there, but nothing happened...just Manuela &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;baddreamed about it one night!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/DPSCamera_0035mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 172px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 205px" height="318" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/400/DPSCamera_0035mini.jpg" width="303" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La ville est entouree par les montagnes et le volcan, en bas de la vallee. En cas d´eruption, je crois qu´il faudrait evacuer la ville en moins de 15 minutes. Il ya des cascades a foison, et c´est tout vert...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;The city is in the valley. In case of irruption, the people have only 15 min before the city looks like pompei...As you can expect, it is amazingly green and there is plenty of waterfalls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/DPSCamera_0079mini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 261px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 327px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="327" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/400/DPSCamera_0079mini.jpg" width="293" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On a ete faire un peu de velo (seulement en descente!!!): sur la route des cascades, y´ en a partout....&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;We´ve been biking on the road of thousand of waterfalls....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-112948070891941760?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/112948070891941760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=112948070891941760' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112948070891941760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112948070891941760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/baos.html' title='Baños'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-112854371394752750</id><published>2005-10-05T20:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-10-16T23:20:21.456Z</updated><title type='text'>2 jours de la balle avec le Biking Dutchman!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/mail[1].jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#330099;"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/mail%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;2 great days with the Biking Dutchman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;escente a velo du volcan Cotopaxi depuis 4600m, sensations assurees&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Volcano Cotopaxi: Ride down by bicycle from 4600m high, great sensations!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nuit a Quilotoa (4100m), descente a pied jusqu´a la lagune, magnifique. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Night in Quilotoa (4100 m high), went down walking to a beautiful laguna.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remontee a dos de mule pour moi ou a pieds pour les plus courageux... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I went back up on a mule, the others walked, i guess they were more courageous...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;Et encore plus de descentes a velo, le tout dans une nature environnante luxuriante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And more riding down by bicycle, surrounding us the luxurious nature!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-112854371394752750?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/112854371394752750/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=112854371394752750' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112854371394752750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112854371394752750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/2-jours-de-la-balle-avec-le-biking.html' title='2 jours de la balle avec le Biking Dutchman!'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-112846437403875290</id><published>2005-10-05T00:19:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-10-05T20:45:04.873Z</updated><title type='text'>Voyage en Ecuador</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 248px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 191px" height="186" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1307.jpg" width="301" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 septembre- 4 octobre 2005&lt;br /&gt;Quito.Voici quelques semaines que nous sommes en vadrouille en Ecuador. A quelques 4100m d´altitude, j´ai pas l´air super en forme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quito.Around Ecuador for a few weeks......At 4100m above sea level, I´m gonna have a heart attack. Manuela is happy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-112846437403875290?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/112846437403875290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=112846437403875290' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112846437403875290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112846437403875290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/voyage-en-ecuador.html' title='Voyage en Ecuador'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17464433.post-112846680518204025</id><published>2005-10-04T22:57:00.000Z</published><updated>2005-10-05T20:52:37.186Z</updated><title type='text'>Estero de Platano</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/Ecotrackersdesktop.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP12752.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 251px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 291px" height="321" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/400/IMGP12752.JPG" width="296" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;26 sept- 01 oct 2005&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 jours passes au bord du Pacifique dans une communaute a &lt;strong&gt;Estero de Platano&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Après une courte nuit passée dans le car, une arrivée très matinale à Atacames et un trajet sur le toit d´une « ranchera » (sorte de bus en bois sans fenêtre) de 2 heures, nous voila arrivés à Estero de Platano ; « pueblo » situé sur la côte Pacifique qui compte environ 400 habitants. Dès notre arrivée, nous fûmes conviés à la remise des diplômes de l´école. Puis nous fûmes accueillis par Fermin et sa petite famille, composée de sa femme Elsa, de leurs 5 filles et du petit dernier Willy. Leur maison en bois est idéalement placée en bord de mer, entre la rivière, justement nommée Estero de Platano et la forêt de type totalement différent de nos arbres à feuilles caduques.&lt;br /&gt;Durant ces 5 jours, nos activités furent diverses et variées, aussi bien enrichissantes que divertissantes. Nous avions également à cœur d´effectuer quelque chose d´utile ; en compagnie de Fermin, Elsa et Andrew (un volontaire américain) nous avons nettoyé la plage en face de chez eux. En une grosse matinée de boulot, nous avons récolté les nombreux morceaux de bois et plastiques répartis sur la plage. Nous les avons rassemblés en différents talus qui furent par la suite brûlés. Il faut savoir que là-bas ils ont tendance à reproduire les mêmes erreurs que nos sociétés occidentales, soit ils brûlent le plastique, soit ils le jettent au milieu de la nature, faute de mieux.&lt;br /&gt;Ils tentent tant bien que mal de s´organiser en comité afin de faire évoluer et améliorer la vie au village. Nous avons notamment assisté à une réunion ayant pour ordre du jour principal la collecte de la « basura » (poubelle). Alternativement, des volontaires se relaient, 2 fois par semaine pour collecter les poubelles soit à l´aide d´un bourrin et d´une petite remorque soit en pick-up pour les mieux lotis. Suite à un manque récurrent de volontaire, le comité a décidé d´aller à Muisne, demander une aide au canton afin d´obtenir de l´argent pour payer la personne en charge du ramassage des ordures. Soucieux de leur environnement, ils ont également décidé de trier les déchets et de distinguer les déchets organiques de ceux plastiques. Notre petite participation fut de peindre sur 48 sacs blancs « plastico » et sur 42 sacs noirs « organica ».&lt;br /&gt;Le reste de notre temps fut employé à de longues balades sur la plage, à des jeux (football, marelle, tressage) avec les enfants, au ramassage de coquillages (que nous avons dégusté le soir même), aux baignades dans le Pacifique (beaucoup plus chaud que l´Atlantique) et à la cueillette de fruits. Avec les enfants, nous grignotions entre les repas les fruits cueillis dans les arbres aux alentours de la maison (Mandarines, Mangues pas toujours mûres, « Guava machete », Pamplemousse, Canne a sucre…etc.). Fermin nous a également emmené faire le tour des différents arbres (souvent fruitiers) qui poussent dans les alentours, nombreux d´entre eux sont peu connus en Europe (« Yuca, Mate, Toquilla, Guanabana, Guava, Aguacate, Papaya, Coco, Arbol de Cafe, de Cacao »). Avec d´autres villageois, ils entretiennent aussi un jardin ou ils font pousser environ 32 variétés de plantes (médicinales, aromatiques et comestibles) et où ils effectuent des greffes d´arbres.&lt;br /&gt;Finalement, cette expérience fut formidable, nous ne sommes pas prêts de l´oublier ainsi que les personnes que nous avons côtoyées pendant cette courte semaine. Nous espérons que nous vous avons donne envie d´y aller, en ce qui nous concerne, nous sommes repartis pour de nouvelles aventures en communautés avec Ecotrackers ! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Not very easy to reach this place, situated near Atacames on the Pacific coast of Ecuador. We had to travel all night from Quito, waiting for few hours in the middle of the night in a place that seems to come from another world and reached Estero de Platano on the roof of a "ranchera" (that is to say being in god´s hands for at least a couple of hours). Finally, we were welcomed by Fermin and his family: 5 girls and a little boy aged from 1 to 11 years. Their house is ideally situated on the beach between the river (called "Estero de Platano") and the jungle. They gave us an amazing amount of bananas and rice to eat at each meals, but also seafoods, fish, chicken and any kind of fruits you might think of (guava, manga, mandarina, papaya, cafe, cacao, coco, cana, etc...). We went there to do some volunteering work in collaboration with Ecotrackers Network (&lt;a href="http://www.ecotrackers.com"&gt;www.ecotrackers.com&lt;/a&gt;) based in Quito. Our little participation consisted in helping out the community with the "basura". We cleaned the beach up, helped in collecting the bins of the village, organising the recycling of plastics and organics, as well as participing in some meeting with the locals (en espanol!!) and going to the council chamber of the closest town (still a couple of hours in these rancheras) in order to ask money for the creation of a permanent bin collector. Of course, it wasn´t too hard to adapt to the south american tempo and we had plenty of time for some walks along the ocean and into the jungle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP13001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1300.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Tranquille (&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;South american rythme&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/1600/IMGP1161.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1910/1684/320/IMGP1161.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Un petit village au bord du Pacifique (&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;view on the village&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17464433-112846680518204025?l=laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/feeds/112846680518204025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17464433&amp;postID=112846680518204025' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112846680518204025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/17464433/posts/default/112846680518204025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://laurentetmanuelaenvadrouille.blogspot.com/2005/10/estero-de-platano.html' title='Estero de Platano'/><author><name>laurent maillet</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
